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This is a jar to use in elemental altars, to place on the section devoted to the Earth and her beauty! You can place this jar near to you when you need energies from the Earth, such as during related spellwork. 

Needed:

One small or medium sized bottle, jar, or pill bottle

An incense you personally associate with the Earth

Contents: 

Clay

Granite

Petrified wood

Sand 

Dried rosemary

Rep pepper flakes

Whole peppercorns

2 bay leaves

Dandelion seeds

2 dried rosebuds

Dried basil

To do:

Bring a small incense burner, your jar, and your ingredients to a fire safe outdoor area that is usually full of life and nature.

Light up an incense that you personally associate with Earth. Meditate through the duration of the burning. As you do, visualize the Earth’s green and golden energies filling your jar to the brim, spilling over with her bountiful and loving energy. 

As the last of the incense burns away, carefully place your ingredients into your jar. As you do, chant 3 times:  On this Earth where I stand,  Digging my roots deep into the sand,  Fill this jar with Your Energy deep and bright, And fill me with Your strength and might.

Put the ashes from the burnt incense into the jar, sprinkling it over the rest of the ingredients. 

Put the lid on your jar, and seal the spell with a kiss to the lid. 

Close off by thanking the Earth for helping you and lending you her energy. 

like thick blankets of honey from my lips.

dare i speak it?

Little ways to connect to the elements while you’re bedridden or stuck inside.

Earth:

Keep jars of dirt from special places.

Grow cacti or succulents.

Make a mini sand garden.

Hang macrame with crystals or stones.

Keep a bouquet of flowers.

Hang herbs from your walls/ceiling.

Get a little plant starter kit, keep seedlings by your window.

Keep some books on plants and geology around.

Watch nature documentaries.

Keep pebbles and crystals under your pillow.

Make a miniature garden/landscape using fake or real plants!

Reach down and feel the energy of the earth below you. Sometimes this is easier on the floor.

Burn candles that smell like the earth/forest/your favorite place.

Drink herbal tea.

Water:

Get a mini waterfall or fountain.

Keep plants that grow in water.

Get a water essential oil diffuser.

Make a spray from infused water.

Open windows when it rains.

Set up a bird fountain outside.

Fully savor your next glass of water.

Keep blues and sea green colors around.

Watch videos or documentaries on aquatic/marine life.

Watch the raindrops or condensation on your window.

Keep a bowl of water around. 

Listen to water/rain ambiance.

Burn candles that smell like the ocean or the rain.

Use a washcloth to wipe down your face/body.

Keep jars of water from your favorite places.

Air:

Open your window.

Use room spray/mist.

Burn candles that smell like the wind.

Hang wind chimes.

Listen to air/wind ambiance.

Get a small fan for some air flow.

Burn incense and watch the smoke move through the air.

Use your breath.

Hang feathers in your room.

Hang scarves and cloths around your room, watch the breeze sway them around.

Get some air plants.

Use an app that lets you see the sky/night sky.

Watch the clouds from your window.

Meditate, allow your senses to explore the air around you.

Fire:

Burn candles/incense.

Hang red or orange curtains.

Get a Himalayan salt lamp.

Use a wax melter.

Get an electric candle.

Use a heating pad or electric blanket.

Listen to fire ambiance. 

Use the heat of your body.

Watch gifs/videos of fire.

Keep a lighter nearby when you need a little flame. 

Place a little tealight in a fireproof vessel near your bed.

Feel the warmth and strength of the sun.

Build up energy with your hands, imagine it’s fire.

Drink tea with warming spices (cinnamon, cloves, etc.)

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NORDRI, SUDRI, AUSTRI AND VESTRI

fairies are metaphysical and symbolic beings.

In Animism it is believed that any natural element has life, soul and consciousness of its own.

It could be said that one of them are the fairies that are energy found in any natural element and that can also be manifested through it, they do not have a specific physical form but they can take a certain physical form

more specifically that of humanoid since generally this is how we usually associate them in that way by representations in art and folk tales and take the form of what we are famerialized with, which in this case is how we see them or (persist).

Are they good or bad? many believe that there are fairies or Faery beings who are: good and others who are bad.

others: that in reality they are neither good nor bad, rather they have no reasoning that it is good or bad, or rather that they do not know how to differentiate between what is good and what is bad

just like nature which is where they come from.

for some others: they tend to be temperamental so they should be treated with respect and not offend if they are so, they will play practical jokes on you and can "steal" and hide your things or even "reverse" "luck".

the Faerie world and the world of the dead: Fairies are seriously believed to be the spirits of the dead, fairies were dead people, perhaps sometimes dating back to pre-Christian times, and that the land of fairies was a transcendent land of the dead, which, in special circumstances , it could be penetrated by the living.

An ingrained tradition is that fairies are the dead pagans (or perhaps post-Purgatory Christians not good enough for heaven but too good for hell), living in a world of limbo, occasionally coinciding with our own. A story that captures this idea well was compiled by folklorist William Bottrell in Cornwall in the early 1870s.

the fairies taboo :The taboo of fairies are restrictions or prohibitions that are set by fairies and that if they are broken have consequences and These consequences are almost always (although not exclusively) harmful for the human protagonists of the stories.